blog.fora.tv A federal study released earlier this year showed a continuing rise in autism rates across the country

www.washingtonpost.com Avril D. Haines will become first woman to hold No. 2 position at agency, officials say.

on.io9.com Talk about your 40-foot perspective: An international team of researchers has put together an absolutely brilliant 3D video map of the nearby universe out to a distance of 300 million light-years. The video is a not-so-subtle reminder of how...

www.alternet.org Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, a nationwide "counter terrorism" apparatus emerged. And it has turned on dissenters like the Occupy movement.

www.cnbc.com As homes gain more value nationwide, banks are acting faster on delinquent loans and repossessing more homes.

www.csmonitor.com About 300 laborers at a Nike factory were fired yesterday after massive protests for better wages, part of a worldwide reflection on developing world factory conditions after the tragedy in Bangladesh.

t.co Several officials, including a top aide to the prime minister, are reported to have been detained. The coalition government has been rocked by a series of corruption scandals.

www.jadaliyya.com The following video expresses the Mosireen media collective’s stance of solidarity with the on-going demonstrations around Istanbul’s Taksim Square, and in several other Turkish cities. It begins with images of trees being uprooted in...

billmoyers.com We need solutions that actually address the principal of the loans and prevent a new student debt crisis from bubbling up again. For instance: a student debt jubilee and the restoration of education as a common good.

"The Muslim Lawyers Association in Johannesburg wants US President Barack Obama arrested and tried for war crimes when he arrives in South Africa on June 29. It submitted a 600-plus page document to the Office of the National Director of Public Prosecutions...